Thursday, 7 April 2011

Potion laboratory

Yesterday afternoon I set up an outside laboratory for the children to make potions. Using finds from last week's kitchen spring clean, I was pleased to put our out-of-date store-cupboard goods to use.

9 comments:

This is Brill! I remember trying to make perfum whwn I was little, but it never quite smelt right, then much to our parents dismay, my sisters and I perfected our fake bird poo recipe and splattered everywhere!

Fantastic! Teacher Tom did something like this last week and I thought I needed to give it a try. Seeing your experience confirms it! Did they have a good feel of all the gloopy concotions and get messy? Hope so! Thanks SO much for linking up to It's Playtime and hope you will share more fabulous ideas next week!

Anna - I'll have a look at Teacher Tom's take on this - probably a bit higher octane than my version!Yes, they got SO messy. Actually happier to interact and get covered with this stuff than glue or glitter - quite interesting, n'est pas! x

Hannah - he he @ the bird poo recipe. Daisy said YUK but then started thinking about how she would make such a mix. THANKS ;) x

This is great! I'm never amazed at what kids can do when you let them play on their own. They are highly capable of using their own imaginations...the proof is in the pudding...or mustard lol. High Five to you!

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Julia, a former school teacher and theatre-in-education performer, is a freelance museum educator and creator of Adventures at Home. Previously an education officer for the BBC and the London Transport Museum with a postgraduate degree in Museum Studies, Julia now teaches hundreds of school children at the British Museum and the Geffrye Museum. It is here that she also devises and leads sessions of stories and song, dance, play and craft for preschoolers. She lives in London with her husband and has two young children of her own.
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